Doctor Julian Subatoi Bashir, portrayed by Siddig el Fadil, was chief medical officer of the titular space station on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi now goes by the name of Alexander Siddig. In addition to his work on ST: DS9, he is perhaps best known for his roles in Syriana and Kingdom of Heaven.
Alexander Siddig also played the angel Gabriel in The Nativity Story.
Gabriel and Michael are the only named angels in the Bible. (Unless you want to count Lucifer…)
The apocryphal book of Tobit, in the Roman Catholic bible, names a third angel: Raphael (Tobit 12:25)
Although primarily known as a painter, the artist Raphael also served for a time as the architect of St. Peter’s Basilica. However, most traces of his work in that church were altered or destroyed after Raphael died and Michelangelo took over the responsibility for design.
Early drafts of the script for the disaster movie 2012 showed the destruction of both St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the Kaaba in Mecca. The latter scene was removed when the studio became concerned about the reaction of Moslem moviegoers.
Francis Bellamy, author of the Pledge of Allegiance, is buried in Rome, New York.
The first American TV show with the name of a female detective in the title was Honey West, starring Anne Francis.
Anne Francis died about one month after her costar on Forbidden Planet, Leslie Nielsen, died.
The distinctive voice of Francis the Talking Mule was provided by veteran character actor Chill Wills, who lent his deep, rough vocal texture and Western twang to the cynical and sardonic mule.
Gary Wills, philosopher, political scientist, historian and aesthete, wrote Nixon Agonistes, Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment, and Lincoln at Gettysburg. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the latter book.
Elizabeth Cochran, who wrote as “Nellie Bly”, worked for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper as an investigative journalist. She traveled around the world in under 73 days, beating the “record” set in Jules Verne’s novel.
Joseph’s Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was “red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and ruby and olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver and rose and azure and lemon and russet and grey and purple and white and pink and orange and blue.”
The Toronto Argonauts, who are going to the Grey Cup from the East this year, are nicknamed the “Double Blue” because their uniforms are Oxford Blue, with Cambridge Blue trim.
Bob Hope had a brief career as a boxer using the name “Packy East” before turning to vaudeville. He would occasionally use the name in skits that featured him as a boxer.
Bob Hope was actually born a Brit named Leslie Townes Hope, in London. His English father was a stonemason, and his Welsh mother was a light opera singer who later worked as a cleaning woman. He emigrated to the US with his family in 1908, just before his fifth birthday, passing through Ellis Island.
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby made seven “Road” pictures, starting with “Road to Singapore” in 1940.
Singapore has been labeled by some political scientists as being perhaps the only authoritarian democracy in the world.
Singapore has won only one Olympic medal since it started sending athletes to the Games in 1964. It was a silver medal in weightlifting won that same year at the Rome Games. A table-tennis player came close by being fourth at the 2000 Sydney Games.